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wouldn't
[ wood-nt ]
- contraction of would not:
I wouldn't ask her.
wouldn't
/ ˈʊəԳ /
contraction of
- would not
Usage Note
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with wouldn't , also see butter wouldn't melt ; caught dead, wouldn't be ; not (wouldn't) lift a finger . Also see under not .Example Sentences
But after this week, you wouldn't say it could never happen.
"Maybe when I was young I wouldn't give it a second thought, but I think it does change your attitude," she added.
Banning them from the airwaves, as Carlin observed, gave them power they wouldn’t have had otherwise.
I’m here to tell you how lucky I’ve been for half a century, why I wouldn’t change a thing if someone loaded me into a time machine, and why, even though I’m buckled into a seat on the Hindenburg, I still want to order a few more cocktails before we crash-land.
She told Salon that, after her injury, “I was in the hospital for about five weeks, and then I had outpatient rehab for eight months. Without Medicaid, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
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